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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a reason Bolingbroke is executing the prisoners?
(a) They have murdered.
(b) Upset the queen.
(c) Misleading Richard.
(d) Causing Richard to banish Bolingbroke.

2. Which of the following lines is what the Queen says to the bearer of the news of Bolingbroke?
(a) "Your news feels of demons ripping my inside."
(b) "What right have you to deliver such agony to the Queen?"
(c) "Thou art the midwife to my woe."
(d) "There is no higher evil than Bolingbroke."

3. Who addresses Bolingbroke as "Lord Hereford" in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) York.
(b) Northumberland.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Sir Pierce of Exton.

4. What is the major concern of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Richard has not returned from Ireland.
(b) The Queen is beginning to go insane.
(c) There are rumors afloat Richard has been taken prisoner.
(d) The army is running out of food.

5. What does York warn Gaunt in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) That Mowbray is going to try to kill him.
(b) That his wife is going to leave him.
(c) That Richard will ignore him.
(d) That Bolingbroke is confronting very harsh conditions in his exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bolingbroke's title now that Gaunt is dead?

2. How are Gaunt and Bolingbroke related?

3. Who does the Servant announce has died in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. What is Richard's reaction towards the news of Gaunt he receives in Act 1, Scene 4?

5. Who is the last to speak in Act 2, Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long have the Captain and Salisbury been waiting for Richard? Have they heard from them? Who else is waiting with them?

2. What is the conversation in Flint Castle between Richard and Aumerle immediately following the one with Northumberland?

3. Of what do Mowbray and Bolingbroke accuse one another in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. What does Mowbray admit to during the feud of the first scene?

5. Are Richard and the Queen allowed to be together? Where are they being sent?

6. How does York meet Bolingbroke at Berkley Castle?

7. What are the Duchess and the Duke discussing in the beginning of Act 5, Scene 2? What happened in the story?

8. In the beginning of Act 3, Scene 3 there is information Bolingbroke and Richard each do not know, that the other does. What is this information for each party?

9. What does Exton say Bolingbroke spoke twice in Act 5, Scene 4?

10. When is it apparent in the play that Richard will be succeeded?

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